LLM Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Large Language Model (LLM)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.13% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £650
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £650 - £650

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

LLM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 676 595 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.56% 88.15% 83.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 394 386
10th Percentile £250 £200 £275
25th Percentile £398 £383 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +7.89% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £595
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% +3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 16 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.62 £21.63 £21.15
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -53.50% +368.47%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.25 £69.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £24.80
% change year-on-year -12.60% -12.94% +46.44%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LLM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

LLM job vacancy trend in Birmingham

LLM
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing LLM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing LLM

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python